Debbie Dingell: “The spectrum will come back to the Government at the conclusion, either the digital or the analog, and the citizens will…”

“The spectrum will come back to the Government at the conclusion, either the digital or the analog, and the citizens will during that time have a chance to change over to the new kind of television sets. The broadcasters will be able to convert to the new kind of broadcasting system. The country will achieve the enormous benefit of this set of events, and the public will receive the opportunity to make the changeover in an orderly fashion in a way which benefits everybody. The taxpayers will gain. There is no giveaway of anything. At the conclusion of this time, the broadcasters will have the same amount of spectrum they have now and an orderly changeover to a superior system of broadcasting will have taken place during this period.”